《2001太空漫游》后9年，前国家航天委员会主任弗洛伊德博士（罗伊•谢德 Roy Scheider 饰）接受苏美合作计划，带领发现号航天站设计者科脑博士（约翰•利思戈 John Lithgow 饰）和HAL9000电脑的创始人钱德拉博士（鲍勃•巴拉班 Bob Balaban 饰）登录木星附近的苏联航空站，与苏联宇航员卡布珂（海伦•米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）等合作，空中接轨美国发现号航天站，调查九年前的事故原因，探索木卫二的神秘黑石，并查明宇航员大卫•伯曼（凯尔•杜拉 Keir Dullea 饰）缘何神秘失踪。然而任务执行尚未过半，美苏关系愈发紧张，战争一触即发；与此同时，大卫•伯曼竟突然现身对弗洛伊德博士发出神秘警告。
本片改编自亚瑟•克拉克的小说《2010太空漫游》，获第59界奥斯卡最佳艺术指导—布景，最佳服装设计，最佳视觉效果，最佳化妆和最佳声效五项提名。

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A Japanese skier ultimately dreamed of literally skiing Mt. Everest. He planned to ski some 8,000 feet down an icy glacier at a 40 to 45 degree angle, from the 26,000 foot level near the summit. This documentary chronicles this incredible feat and the tremendous task of climbing Everest itself. The narrator reads from the diary that the skier personally kept. Written by Andrew Baird-Kerr <andrewbk@networx.on.ca>

The biggest question of our time. Are we alone? Chapter 1 of this experience takes you to alien worlds and distant places in time and space, in search of where alien life might be hiding and what our place is within the history of life. After generations of wondering, the truth is finally within our reach. New research and technologies have brought us closer than ever to an answer - only a few decades in the eyes of some NASA scientists.